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FOB FARM AMD GARDEN.
TO MAKE IIENS LAY.
Put two or more quarts of water in a
kettle, advisos an exchange, and one
SArge seed pepper, or two small ones,
then put the kettle over tho Are. When
the water boils, stir in the coarse Indian
meal until you havo a thick mush. Let
it cook an hour or so; feed hot. Horse
radish chopped flno and stirred into
mush as prepared in the above direc
tions, will help. We hear a good deal
of complaint about not getting eggs.
To such we would warmly recommend
cooked feed fed hot. Boiled apple
skins seasoned with red popper, or
boiled potatoes seasoned with horse rad
ish, are good for feed, much better than
uncooked food.
Any suoh warm stimulating foods are
valuablo aids in producing eggs. Clean
.nests arc another help. Anything that
puts the fowl in good physical condi
tion, as pure water and warm houses in
winter, will pay for itaelf four fold.
Oorn, when fed the hen by itself, has
a tendency to fatten rather than produce
the more profitable egg laying. A
spoonful of sulphur stirred with their
feed occasionally will rid them of ver
min, and tone up their systems.—Farm,
Field and Stoc'cman.
SEEDS AND SEED SAVING.
The first stop iu seed saving h to
start with a good selection, the labor of
another’s hand. Whother you have
made such must ba determined by ob
servation and comparison. If your
plants arc inferior to those you see olse-
where, do not save seeds from them,
but cast them aside and commence
anew.
If your several strains are superior to
others, carefully select the best flowers
for seed; do not choose the first, neither
the last, as the most perfect forms and
positive colors will be developed in tho
intermediate stage of tho plant’s ex
istence, as it is then that the plant has
the greatest vitality and power of re
production.
Do not allow the plant to ripen
more seed than you may require for the
next year’s planting. This will allow
the plant to throw its whole strength
into tho perfection of tho seed you de
sire to save. Cut oR all others a3 soon
as the flowers fade. If the plant is al
lowed to ?ipen seed freely, it will soon
cease blooming, having accomplished
its mission. If not allowed to ripen
seed it will continue to flower the whole
season. As a means of reproduction, a
single capsule of petunia, or of balsam
of any desired color, will be amply suf-
ticent for the next year's stock, and tho
same is true of mo3t other flowering
plants. —American Cultivator.
MULCHING CROPS.
With crops that are to be kept grow
ing during the summer, it will often be
found quite an item to mulch after the
last cultivation is given. The principal
gain in mulching is that it keeps the
soil cooler, and retains moisture already
in the soil, so that a growth will be
maintained oven when the weather is
dry and hot. Potatoes, vines of all
kinds, tomatoes, melons, cucumbers
and squash are often materially bene
fited by applying a good mulch, giving
thorough cultivation while it is con
sidered necessary, and then mulohing.
One of the best materials that can bo
used for mulching this class of plants is
partially-rotted bagasse. Apply a good
layer around each plant after thoroughly
stirring tho surface. Old wheat straw,
corn-stalks, or even weeds and grass,
are good materials to$iso for mulching.
All of this clais of plants require
.considerable moisturo iu order to make
tho best growth and yield, and in many
• cases it is a choico between supplying
moisture by watering and mulching,
and if thorough work has been done iu
giving clean cultivation, and the soil is
in a good tilth, tho more economical
plan is to apply a good mulch; while,
iu addition to this, it is possiblo to
plant and grow a crop much later than
could be dono otherwise. »Iu somo lo
calities tho risk of drouth is much great
er than in others; and where a locality
is subject to drouth, it is difficult to so-
ouro profitable crops wkuo. planted late,
unless artificial watering or manuriug is
supplied, iu order that tho plant may
obtain necessary moisture.
It is best in applying a mulch to sup
ply in time before hot, dry weather
fairly sets in, as much better rosults cau
be secured than if this is delayed until
later in the season. In addition to aid
ing to retain moisture, a good mu'ch
prevents the growth of weeds, avoiding,
to a considerable extent, tho nccesSity
of late cultivation. —Prairie Farmer.
A FEW HINTS ON MILKING.
Milking is a work that should bo un
derstood in order to successfully man
age a dairy, says an Ohio farmer in
Prairie Farmer, or tho dairy portion of
the farm; yet how many over think of-
tho most successful way of extracting
the milk? We have seen milkers lake
two teats and milk them dry while the
othors are untouched. This is a cleat#
case of cruelty to the cow. The udder
of a cow will not holl the milk that is
carried by a fair milker, and since tho
milk is given down into the udder from
all the glands at the same time it must
necessarily follow that those from which
none has been taken must bo filled to
the utmost possibility, and cause the
cow to suffer from tho pressure of the
milk in tho udder. Many persons di
vide tho milk into “fore-milk” and
“strippings,” thus having two grades
either to sell or churn, skimming tha
fore-milk, and churning the strippings
with the cream of the fore-milk, thus
dividing the milking of a cow into two
periods. Even' this is not enough.
The milk should bo taken from each
teat as fast as can be done, and not allow
the udder to become too full in any sec
tion.
Train the cow to stand as quiet as
possible while milking, so that the
milker can have both hands to use at
the same time. A cow will never milk
so well when she is allowed to suffer
from over-crowding of udder. Another
point is to have all excitement cease
while milking, and allow no stoppago
until you have finished. A cow be
comes restless if she is kept longer than
necessary, consequently will not give
the milk down freely. By all means
use both hands, and extract tho milk
evenly from the teats; accomplish this
by sitting on the side most convenient
to you. The best result is what is
wanted; use your judgment in accom
plishing this. You will find it always
pays to do your work right.
HEMLOCK HEDGES.
H. A. Miller writes to tho American
Agriculturist that he set out a hemlock
hedge last year, that many of the
plants havo died, and now ho would
like to know how to proceed in order
to replace them and secure a good
hedge. Tho thing to be taken into
consideration is tho soil, and if it is a
heavy clay there is little use in plant
ing hemlock, for who evor saw a hem
lock forest grow on such soils, unless
overlaid with a heavy deposit of vege
table mold? If tho soil is loam, or
even sand, it is w5.ll' adapted to the
hemlock, and nii>/ be enriched if noces-
sary, by tho addition of any old and
thoroughly decomposed manure. It
would bo useless to undertake to set
tho plants in the spaces whore others
have died out, for it could scarcely be
done properly, and tho better way is,
take up tho entire hedge, throw away
tho dead and fceblo plants, and resot
the healthy at one end of tho lino of
tho hedge, and fill out with fresh plants
of tho same size to bo obtained at
some nursery. When all are in place,
prune away at least one-third of tho
entire top with hedge shears, and in a
straight line on both sides and top. The
first pruning of a hedgo should bo given
as soon as possiblo after tho last
plant is secured in place, and that is
also tho time to decide upoa tho propor
form in which it is to be trained, and
which should bo rigorously adhered to
in after years. Evergreen hedges should
be trained in a conical form, with a
sharp point, in order to prevont the
lodgment of snow on tho top in wiutor.
The pruning should bo dono early in
spring, or just beforo tho buds push
into growth, and at no other time. If
large fruit or forest trees are permitted
to grow near a hedge, the latter will
sooner or later suRer from the crowding
of tho roots, or shade, and perhaps
both. As a rule, no treo of large growth
should be permitted within twenty feet
of any hedge, and fifty feet would ba
still bettor. Plants one to three feet
high aro largo ouough to begin hedgo
with, and if those havo been trans
planted onco or twice in a nursery, not
one in a thousand should bo lost whoa
removed to tho hodgo-row.
EOR FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Ship the ducks as soon us ready for
market.
Tako in the plow before commencing
anothor job.
The Color of Plants.
A French scientific agriculturist, after
almost thirty years of assiduous re
searches on the experimental farm at
Vincennes, has made a remarkable and
important discovery of a relation existing
between the color of plants and the rich
ness of s ills in fertilizing agents. He
finds that the color of the leaves of
plants undergoes marked change when
ever the soil is lacking in phosphate pot
ash, lime or- nitrogren. The color re
mains light green or turns to yellow
when the soil is deficient in any of these
ingredients. When none of tho fertiliz
ing elements ore wanting the color is
dark green. By his experiments he
lumishes agriculturists with positive in
dications by which they can determine
with tho greatest facility what kind of
fertilizer the soil needs most or in what
elements of fertility it abounds, enabling
them to “make two blades of grass grow
where now grows one.”
American Enterprise.
Although it has been asserted that
sealskins cannot be properly dressed and
dyed in America, several firms in New
York annually trim out thousands of
skins prepared in their own establish
ment by American workmen; so large is
the demand for their goods that they
cannot wholly meet it. An encouraging
outlook, this, for home industries.
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Catarrh Is an exceedingly disagreeable disease,
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